On Sugar

(This is the first message in years. There is much to describe. The beginning is lost,
but attempts shall be made to explain how things got where they are...)

OBSERVATIONS FROM THE PLANET

The people here are held in some kind of spell of Deep Sleep. This trance of inertia and
ennui seems to be maintained by their food supply, which mainly consists of processed foods,
adulterated with artificial flavours and additives, yet packaged and advertised to be good and
wholesome, nutritious even. Naturally grown crops are sprayed with agro-chemical fertilisers
and toxic pesticides in an attempt to increase yields unnaturally and to combat losses from
pests who are mutating faster than the pesticides can evolve. The dead animals whose bodies are
consumed by the majority of the populace contain lethal bacteria known to cause diseases.

As a result of this poor diet, the people are very prone to illness and their immune systems
are continually running low as they try to battle with these toxins. Multi-national
pharmaceutical companies have seized upon this fact to create a massive market for crank cures
for the many ailments suffered. These products, although dressed up in the scientific jargon so
beloved and trusted by the population, do not alleviate the problem, but rather deaden the
senses and move the discomfort to another part of the body, calling for other drugs to try and
balance these side effects.

It may even be postulated that the food and drug industries are secretly linked at high
levels, and operate in conjunction to perpetrate this situation.

The chief agent in this massive (now almost planet-wide) operation is a drug which is found
in almost all mass-produced foodstuffs. A stimulant, highly addictive (more so than even the
most frowned-upon of the other narcotic substances), yet now completely accepted into
contemporary culture as being a necessary part of the human diet, this drug impedes digestion
of food and uses up vitamins to break it down into glucose which the body needs. It provides a
quick fix of energy and then a long trough of indigestion, during which cravings and depression
will fool one into thinking one is hungry and force one to eat more.

This has the effect of making people manic and then depressive, and never in touch with their
real emotions. All they can 'feel' is how much stimulant they are riding on. Most of them are
completely oblivious to this fact, and will vehemently challenge any such suggestion. People
become false, meaningless, shallow; their actions and pursuits tend towards short-term
quick-gain minimal-effort at the expense of their environment. Indeed, they become true
expressions of their diet.

As a result, there is much unrest and instability. Arguments form easily as people's moods go
up and down, often relating to property or land, causing family feuds on one scale and wars on
another. Yet as long as everyone fights each other, they remain slaves to the system, and
merely serve it.

Those in charge know all about this; they know that to in order to rule others, one must be
respected by them, and to gain this respect, one must first have respect for oneself. The
rulers know that energy flows from high to low. They know what keeps people down. Their entire
system is based on the principle that indigestion breeds low self-esteem. They only pretend to
be like everyone else. Shit.

T H I N K
A B O U T
I T . . .

("Write it down somewhere; I'll use it in my column next week".)

It appears that the reasons behind this dismal state of affairs are complex, but stem from
the class structure found in many so-called developed 'civilisations'. Those who wield the
power in these patriarchal hierarchies (as opposed to those who would embody power in a
matriarchal system of government) seek to control the masses and make them do the hard work,
while they live in luxury and reap the benefits. The high priests of consumerist gluttony
preach their false values as Righteous and Good, encouraging their minions to work harder to
earn more to buy more to eat more to be happier. Yet all the time, the people are unaware that
they are being conned, since this has been continuing now for many generations; there are no
longer people alive who remember any different, and anyone trying to voice such opinions
publicly are quickly silenced or discredited by being labelled as extremists, communists, and
such like.

Indeed, one can only understand all this in a practical way, by giving it up
completely - 'coming down' and allowing their bodies to cleanse themselves and operate properly
without giving in to temptation to take some again. This is an horrendous spiritual battle (to
whom everyone else would ignorantly answer "so why do it then?"), yet those who win it
shall know true strength of will.

Obstacles will be many; external pressures, memories of pleasure, social 'concern', as well
as internal cravings, mood-swings, depression, and physical troughs of fatigue and of logic
where body and mind scream out and do their utmost to persuade you that you were mistaken to
ever give up. People will treat you differently, and attack you at your weakest times, so it is
best to avoid them for a few days while you acclimatise yourself to reality. Gradually, as your
true inner strength builds, you will see that those who would intimidate you are the ones with
the problem. Learn to avoid them.